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Providers will find a new entry into the world of advanced alternative payment models (APM) after CMS announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced program, which will reward providers on the basis of their cost-containment scores for 32 distinct episodes of care.
Clinicians who have have been anxious to start the next round of merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) participation will be delighted to learn that the bulk of measures specifications information is now available for this year. All other clinicians who need to participate to protect their payments also should review the updated information and get a start on MIPS year 2.

 

Having made allowances in Quality Payment Program (QPP) reporting for practices affected by recent natural disasters, CMS is now giving Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) a similar break in both their QPP reporting and in their Shared Savings program scoring.

 

The final rule for year two of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) makes a few departures from the proposed rule -- the most surprising of which is the early return of the cost category for the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).
You can buckle up and take part in a test run of the MIPS cost category to see how your practice performs on eight experimental measures.

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